LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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A character who is always cheerful and gay
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A character who is by nature melancholy
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A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body
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An eccentric person
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jonson integrated many elements into his poetry: praise and instruction, the person and the ‘pictura’, moral and factual truth, the universal principle and the particular example.
Detailed explanation-2: -He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Johnson accepts only the unity of action, among the three unities because the unity of action ensures an effect of compactness and intensity. It helps getting to the centre of things in a play. Conventions are techniques that are accepted by common agreement. The unities are dramatic conventions.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ben Jonson’s first play ‘Every Man In His Humor’ belongs to the sub-genre of “humour comedy” wherein each character has a fixation or characteristic humour. In 1598, the play was produced by Lord Chamberlain’s Men.